Last month, Vadim Lavrusik, the coordinator of Facebook's new journalism program, called Facebook a "newspaper of the people". His speech at Columbia's Social Media Weekend came a few weeks after the...

Top editors and execs are assembling their rosters for the new year with key players from competing companies. The New York Times Magazine swipes another New York editor, while on the digital front,...

Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, is facing a class action lawsuit charging that its controversial advertising program violated online privacy and computer fraud laws. A group of...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social network site Facebook will press members to declare whether they are male or female, seeking to end the grammatical device that leads the site to refer to individual...

(Reuters) - Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of Facebook and a former online strategist for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, has purchased a majority stake in The New Republic,...

Facebook has reportedly been toying around with the idea of launching a distribution platform for mobile games, boosting advertising revenue by also taking a cut of sales. As of today, the initiative...

Facebook announced today that it's rolling out embedded posts. That means you'll be able to click on a link in whatever you publish, get a code, and embed that content elsewhere on the Web-just like...

Facebook on Thursday rolled out changes to the way third-party apps request permissions from users when connecting to Facebook. Now, the app must request separate permission to "read" and use some of...

Tech firm Giphy this morning tweeted that it had launched a Facebook GIFs product, and the digerati immediately buzzed with interest. Within a couple of hours, The Gap posted one of the first branded...

A German privacy regulator is astonished that Facebook has added facial recognition to a proposed new privacy policy it published on Thursday.
"It is astonishing to find the facial recognition again...

Tech companies continue their push to reveal more details about how often the U.S. government collects user information for national security purposes.
Yahoo and Facebook have now filed motions with...

Twenty four years ago, journalist Yvette Walker became one half of an interracial marriage. Her everyday experiences, like finding a cake topper that reflected the bride and groom, eventually led to...